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HANSARDNon-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you again for coming in this morning, Mr Woodall—we really appreciate your time. I am very pleased to hear your overall assessment that, for the convenience stores that…11 Dec 2024HANSARDNon-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you for joining us this morning, Mr Watson. I represent two towns in the east midlands, Ilkeston and Long Eaton. Both the high streets in our towns have suffered for a…11 Dec 2024HANSARDNon-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Minister, for your time. We have had really interesting sessions today. I represent two towns, as I said earlier, and I am really pleased to represent one where a lot…11 Dec 2024HANSARDNon-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you for coming in, Mr Adam. The argument that you have put forward is predicated on the link that you have established between business rates and rent. A quick Google…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Higher Education: Financial SustainabilityThe hon. Member raises an excellent point, and it is important that we bear that in mind. This is a danger that we need to contend with. The conversation that I hope to start with…05 Dec 2024HANSARD Higher Education: Financial SustainabilityIt remains a great privilege to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz. I thank hon. Members, the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston (Neil O'Brien),…05 Dec 2024HANSARD Higher Education: Financial SustainabilityI beg to move, That this House has considered the financial sustainability of higher education. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz. Our universities are…05 Dec 2024HANSARD Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) BillI will focus on the removal of private schools’ eligibility for charitable business rates relief. Before I was elected to the House I was a scientist, but before I was a scientist…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) BillI remind the right hon. Gentleman that if Opposition Members did not want us to have to take drastic measures to re-establish our country’s economy, they should not have left a…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) BillI will come to some of those points further on in my speech, if the hon. Gentleman is willing to hang on for a few minutes. I trained as a teacher when the former Member of…25 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. The Joint European Torus fusion experiment in Oxfordshire has been delivering fantastic scientific results, standing at the forefront of UK science and the fusion experiment…12 Nov 2024HANSARDSupport for the Steel IndustryI thank the Secretary of State for her hard work to support our steel industry and our general steel communities, including in Port Talbot, since she has been in post. I was…06 Nov 2024HANSARDSupport for the Steel Industry11. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support the steel industry in Wales.06 Nov 2024HANSARD Higher Education ReformThrough a 10-year career in the higher education sector and now as chair of the all-party parliamentary university group, two things have become abundantly clear to me: first, the…04 Nov 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for your kind invitation to present my first speech. May I first congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Natalie Fleet) on her deeply…29 Oct 2024HANSARDInfected Blood Compensation SchemeI am very pleased to hear that the Minister has opened applications for interim payments. Will he elaborate on how those payments may be accessed, so that my constituents in…24 Oct 2024HANSARDInfected Blood Compensation Scheme13. What recent progress he has made on establishing the infected blood compensation scheme.24 Oct 2024HANSARD Special Educational Needs and DisabilitiesA whole 10% of my constituency casework relates to SEND provision, so I recently issued a public letter to Conservative-led Derbyshire county council expressing my deep concern…24 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. It was fantastic to see senior officials from the UK’s closest allies in intelligence meet recently to co-ordinate the fight against fraud, which affects the most vulnerable…24 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. Further to the question from across the way on climate change, what steps is the Minister taking to support climate change development internationally?22 Oct 2024